When i was using tumblr as my main social media i was basically the nicest person ever. But now that i use instagram i am an insufferable asshole online and super mean to people who deserve it under their reels just because they think that just because they have a voice that they get to use said voice on societal matters.
But also this is literally the point of those social media. Insta, facebook, tiktok and others thrive off of pissing you off. They thrive off of degeneracy and hate and promoting wrong morals. Their algorithms legitimately will suggest you content that piss you off to get engagement. Cause they know you'll be angry enough to come back and "show those people"
"those people" never had a platform to spread their misinformatiom and hate and absolutely awful behavioir before these algorithms who promote content with the highest engagement. It's no surprise creators are legitimately putting false information in their videos to get more engagement by people commenting how wrong they are because that's what the algorithm will rank higher. It will rank shock, hate, injury, death, sad stories higher because they get engagement. And it doesn't stop there. Once it pulls you into one direction it will laser focus on that topic.
Oh you spent 2 more seconds than usual on a depression video because you looked away and didn't scroll past fast enough? Well not your whole front page is going to be how much life sucks and how you should hate yourself for existing. And now you're sad bohoo, here's some reasons why you should hate women! Here's some dude in a podcast saying how minorities are destroying the country because you liked a cat video posted by a right wing asshole who watches this stuff on the regular!
It's insane, its fucking insane that the entire human moral is lead by these attention and reaction algorithms instead of being regulated.
I hate this so much. I absolutely loathe it. The internet used to be a wonderful place full of curiosity with no degenrate content unless you were really looking for it and now you get leaked documents in front of your face on a tiktok story about baking hacks!